Two civilian employees of the Defense Ministry are recovering from a
near lynch attempt on Monday.

The two were traveling to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem when they
accidentally made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a traffic jam
between two Arab cars. A crowd of Arab youths then showed up and
began throwing rocks at them.

At one point the rock throwers, some of whom were students from a
nearby school, approached the vehicle and slammed a large stone into
the windshield. The rock struck the driver, Yehuda Attias, in the
head. Attias, who was all bloody, hit the gas and the two Israelis
then fled toward a nearby hotel. They called security and rescue
forces and were taken to the hospital. Attias was since hospitalized
several times because of the severe head injuries.

Eliezer Hakshur, Attias’ brother-in-law, told Arutz Sheva that it was
a miracle that Attias survived the lynching attempt.

“He is suffering from headaches and has twice been hospitalized with
vomiting and chills,” Hakshur said, adding the rock throwers
were “probably a group of children from the nearby Arab school who
realized the two were stuck, and called their friends who began to
throw rocks at them. They smashed the car’s windshield and my brother-
in-law’s head. He had deep cuts and his head is full of stitches.”

He added that the whole incident could have ended much
differently. “It was a miracle, we have no other words to describe
it. Yehuda, whose head was bleeding, fled at the last minute. Only
when they came into the hotel did the security and rescue forces
arrive.”

In recent months, Arabs have attacked Jewish motorists with rocks, in
what is starting to again become a common phenomenon on the roads of
Judea and Samaria, as it was in the days of the 2002 Second Intifada.